3.1.2 Matrix Server Installation Guide

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Matrix Server can use either one or three membership partitions. To

ensure that a membership partition is always available, we strongly

recommend that you select three partitions.

To create a membership partition, click Add. The Add Membership

Partition window then lists all of the disks or LUNs that it can access.

Select the disk or LUN where you want to place the first membership

partition.

All of the available partitions on that disk or LUN then appear in the

bottom of the window. Select one of these partitions and click Add.

(The minimum size for a membership partition is 100 MB.) Repeat this

procedure to select two more membership partitions. We recommend

that the partitions be on different disks.

When selecting partitions for use as membership partitions, be sure

that they do not contain any needed data. When the membership

partitions are created, any existing data will be erased.

4. Snapshot configuration. Matrix Server provides support for taking

hardware snapshots of PSFS filesystems. (The filesystems must be

located on storage arrays supported for snapshots.) If you want to use

this capability, you will need to configure the snapshot method.